During the summer of 2010, The Big Issue Foundation asked Joel if he would like to join the vendor placement programme at the law firm, Freshfields. Every Thursday Joel has been selling the magazine in their office, gaining valuable work experience,establishing some fantastic contacts and improving his business and communications skills. Freshfields have helped me with so much - with clothing, getting a mobile phone, and even sent me on a public speaking course and recruited me as their official Freshfields football coach! After applying for a full time position at Freshfields, I am now working in the billing department and am gaining valuable life changing work experience.
Heat oil in a medium pot over medium heat. Add onion, cut side down, garlic, and ginger. Cook, stirring occasionally, until garlic is golden, 3–4 minutes. Add 1 1/2 cups water, broth, star anise, and cinnamon; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer until flavors meld, 7–8 minutes. Add mushrooms; simmer 2 minutes. Add scallion. Season with salt. Scan for more of about Joel and other vendor Scan for more recipes
Meanwhile, boil ramen until tender but still firm to bite. Drain; divide among bowls.Add beef slices to soup; simmer until just cooked through, about 20 seconds. Using tongs, transfer beef to bowls.Discard ginger, garlic, star anise, and cinnamon; ladle broth into bowls. Garnish with bean sprouts, basil, and sliced chiles.
STEPHEN GRAHAM INTERVIEW: “I WAS ABOUT TO PACK IT ALL IN...” Boardwalk Empire’s Stephen Graham on his ‘amazing childhood’, an outof-body experience - and why Shane Meadows made him feel like a kite At 16 I was racing about with my mates, going to the boys’ club in Kirkby [Merseyside], playing five-aside, having a laugh. And I was already heavily involved with the Everyman Theatre group in Liverpool. I remember one of my best mates, Lee, saying: “Why you doing all this acting shit – it’s just for girls and gays.” I said: “Oh is it, yeah? Why don’t you come and watch the show?” He came to this play at the Liverpool Playhouse and he loved it. Then afterwards at the stage door there was a big queue of girls waiting for us and he said: “Oh my God, it’s all right this acting, isn’t it? This is dead good!” I come from a big Irish-Scottish family. I had an amazing childhood. My mum and dad, God bless them, they’ve always had total faith in me. I remember when I was about 17 and I was doing a play at the Everyman called Easy. A lot of it was me just speaking to the audience. And this night there was one moment, without sounding wanky or pretentious, halfway through my monologue, I had this weird out of body experience. And afterwards my dad came to me and said: “Son, you had me crying there – not for you but for your character. I think I’ve just seen you grow up onstage.”
I don’t want to sound like a fucking Glee song but I’d just tell my younger self, never stop believing. I never imagined that one day I’d be on a film set with Gary Oldman or be directed by Martin Scorsese. I think back to getting the bus to the Everyman and cut to years later, I’m bouncing on a speedboat in the middle of the ocean with a great big long wig on, looking like something out of Spinal Tap, on the set of Pirates of the Caribbean, thinking: ‘Wow, this is what it’s like then. I’m an actor now.’ I learned so much from Shane Meadows on This Is England. He makes you feel like you’re a champion or a kite that could just fly off into the wind – and he guides you from place to place. That film was when it all came together for me as an actor. Though afterwards I couldn’t get an acting job for eight months. I was about to pack it in and become a youth worker. Maybe people were scared of me – but I’m a very nice, happily married man with two lovely kids. I like playing dark characters but in real life I’m respectful and polite. Manners cost nothing. There’s enough shit in the world.
It is official: The world’s greatest cycle race - the Tour de France - will start in the world’s greatest county on 5th & 6th July 2014 bringing millions of fans to the Yorkshire roadside to cheer on the champions of the sport. It will be the first time Le Tour has visited the north of England having previously only made visits to the south coast and the capital. We guarantee it will be a festival and a spectacle for fans and first timers alike and are sure Yorkshire will rise to occasion and give the riders, the teams and the race organisers a Grand Départ to remember. Yorkshire is a world class county and it will deliver a world class event. This is Yorkshire’s moment to shine. Over 3 billion people watch Le Tour on television every year providing a wonderful advert for our county and hopefully it will prompt people who maybe haven’t visited before or not been in a while to book a break to visit us. “It will mean less than two years after hosting the Olympics the British public can look forward to another of the world’s biggest sporting events coming to the country, and I am in no doubt they will come to Yorkshire in their millions, lining the length and breadth of the route to cheer on the champions
Bruce Mclean 14 February – 11 May 2014 Leeds Art Gallery This exhibition draws on work made by Bruce McLean from the last 50 years but through the prism of new and recent work. It will provide a unique opportunity to see works that have not been exhibited together before. Working across a variety of mediums including painting, film and video projection, photography and performance, Bruce McLean is one of the most important artists of his generation.
Of Mice & Men Fri 28 Feb - Sat 29 Mar West Yorkshire Playhouse
The Leeds Half Marathon Sun 11 May 2014 John Steinbeck’s iconic novella 9:30-11.30 is driven by one of literature’s City Square most enduring and unlikely The Leeds Half Marathon is friendships. one of the highlights of Leeds’ This timeless story of loyalty, sporting calendar. survival and hope is set to a haunting, melodic live score The 13.1 mile run starts on by avant-Americana musician the Headrow, close to the Heather Christian and is iconic Town Hall and finishes in directed by West Yorkshire Cookridge Street, to the side of Playhouse’s new Associate landmark Millennium Square. Director Mark Rosenblatt and With an electric start and finish, designed by Max Jones. the Half Marathon is a fantastic challenge and a step-up from the 10K series for those who want to push themselves a little further. For further details see www. runforall.com
Brief Encounter 15 March 2014 Oldham Libraries
Printing Sheffield Sat 25 Jan - Sun 15 Jun 2014 One of the big screen’s great Millennium Gallery romances, Brief Encounter is a sensitive and unforgettable Printmaking in Sheffield is alive portrayal of love and moral and kicking; the city has an courage. TICKETS: £3 each and… active group of artists employing There’s also the chance to win a diverse printing techniques with copy of the film on DVD to take equally vibrant results. home in our raffle. Certificate: PG Contains mild sex references This brand new exhibition will reflect the diversity and Running time: 1 hour 26 minutes abundance of contemporary Starring: Celia Johnson, Trevor printing in Sheffield and includes Howard and Stanley Holloway works by Jo Peel, James Green, Year/country: 1945 UK Talk about Phlegm, EMA and Kid Acne. his event using #LoveOldham Printing Sheffield forms a snapshot of the current scene and will include works for sale so that you too can participate in the print revolution.
In My Shoes Wednesday, 12 Mar 2014 Sheffield City Hall Innovators in hip-hop theatre Rationale Productions are bringing their latest creation ‘In My Shoes’ to the stage. The show combines humour and break dancing to portray the story of five very different people who attend an extreme ‘hip hop’ therapy session in a desperate bid to overcome their problems. Expect high energy, lots of laughter, gravitydefying b-boying, slick popping, and a ton of Hip Hop moves that
Blue is the Warmest Colour (Director: Abdellatif Kechiche, Certificate: 18) Winner of the top prize at this year’s Cannes film festival, the French drama Blue Is the Warmest Colour arrives in British cinema with a fresh glow of controversy. The film is a portrait of the long romance between two young women, and the heat generated so far is all to do with the explicit, unusually prolonged sex scenes between the two lovers. The director is a man. Several critics have detected a note of voyeurism to his unblinking 10-minute sequence of two very naked, very photogenic young French women adopting all kinds of positions, like a vigorous calisthenic workout but with scented candles and orgasmic grunting. It was along these lines that Julie Maroh criticised the film. She’s the author of the graphic novel from which the film is adapted, so she’s entitled to her views. Still, I’m not persuaded. Blue is the Warmest Colour is a wonderful film: tender, raw, honest, sad and performed with intensity. There’s a fleshy authenticity to the sex scenes that can feel uncomfortable – but that also applies to the rest of the film, when the characters are fully clothed.
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The film revolves around Adèle (Adèle Exarchopoulos) who, when we first meet her, is a high-school student in Lille who hasn’t fully emerged from the dreamy melancholy of adolescence.
We have to wait a while before they become an item – Blue is the Warmest Colour is unhurried but never boring – and the dramatic delay evokes something of the longing of first love. Then Adèle sights Emma in a bar, and with a boldness she hasn’t shown before follows her to a club where they finally strike up a conversation. Depicting the ensuing relationship over a number of years, the film charts the way that initial flicker of passion develops into a long-term affair. It’s also attuned to the way this affair emotionally marks Adèle – as all great first loves do. Played by 19-year-old Exarchopoulos, Adèle seems to age before camera, growing into a woman from the quiet high-school student at the start of the film. It’s a striking performance – but just as remarkable, in a quieter way, is Seydoux as Emma. Without giving much away, the film doesn’t challenge the view that first loves inevitably fizzle out. If the first half of the film is about Adèle falling in love, the second charts her attempt to handle a broken heart. In both cases she is fearless, almost heroically so: the several scenes of her breaking down, her face awash with tears and snot, felt much more exposing than the earlier sex scenes.
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